Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1998
| Release Date | Movie | Distributor | Domestic Box Office to Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 1998 | |||
| January 2 | Oscar and Lucinda (Wide) | Fox Searchlight | $1,612,957 |
| January 9 | Arguing the World (Wide) | First Run Features | $47,044 |
| Firestorm (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $8,123,860 | |
| January 16 | Live Flesh (Wide) | MGM | $1,535,558 |
| Fallen (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $25,310,938 | |
| Half Baked (Wide) | Universal | $17,394,881 | |
| Hard Rain (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $19,870,567 | |
| Illtown (Wide) | Artisan | $68,955 | |
| Star Kid (Wide) | Trimark | $7,015,240 | |
| Bob Dylan Don't Look Back (1967) (Re-release) (Limited, re-release) | $27,158 | ||
| The Dress (Limited) | Attitude Films | $16,556 | |
| Full Speed (Limited) | |||
| January 21 | Fallen Angels (1998) (Limited) | Kino International | $58,318 |
| January 23 | The Gingerbread Man (Wide) | Polygram | $1,626,593 |
| Phantoms (Wide) | Miramax | $5,755,333 | |
| Slappy and the Stinkers (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $34,488 | |
| Spice World (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $29,342,592 | |
| Swept From The Sea (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $283,081 | |
| January 30 | Caught Up (Wide) | Live Film & Mediaworks | $6,754,958 |
| Deceiver (Wide) | MGM | $699,062 | |
| Deep Rising (Wide) | Walt Disney | $11,203,026 | |
| Desperate Measures (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $13,678,274 | |
| Four Days in September (Wide) | Miramax | $310,724 | |
| Great Expectations (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $26,333,044 | |
| Taste of Cherry (Wide) | New Line | $311,873 | |
| Zero Effect (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $2,080,693 | |
| It’s in the Water (Limited) | $130,928 | ||
| Killing Time (Limited) | Lionsgate | $12,154 | |
| February 1998 | |||
| February 6 | Blues Brothers 2000 (Wide) | Universal | $14,089,198 |
| The Night Flier (Wide) | New Line | $91,549 | |
| The Replacement Killers (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $19,035,741 | |
| February 13 | Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (Wide) | Strand Releasing | $209,244 |
| The Borrowers (Wide) | Polygram | $22,619,589 | |
| Hurricane Streets (Wide) | MGM | $334,041 | |
| The Only Thrill (Wide) | $15,093 | ||
| Post Coitum, Animal Triste (Wide) | New Yorker | $109,596 | |
| Sphere (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $37,068,294 | |
| The Wedding Singer (Wide) | New Line | $80,245,725 | |
| February 20 | Dangerous Beauty (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $4,553,271 |
| I Love You … Don't Touch Me! (Wide) | MGM | $33,598 | |
| Love Walked In (Wide) | Sony/TriStar | $5,000 | |
| Mrs. Dalloway (Wide) | First Look | $3,263,672 | |
| Palmetto (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $5,846,660 | |
| Senseless (Wide) | Miramax | $13,109,234 | |
| February 27 | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (Wide) | Walt Disney | $45,779 |
| Dark City (Wide) | New Line | $14,435,076 | |
| Kissing a Fool (Wide) | Universal | $4,100,505 | |
| Krippendorf's Tribe (Wide) | Walt Disney | $7,571,115 | |
| Kurt and Courtney (Wide) | Roxie Releasing | $441,808 | |
| The Real Blonde (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $247,745 | |
| March 1998 | |||
| March 6 | The Big Lebowski (Wide) | Gramercy | $19,120,853 |
| Hush (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $13,587,246 | |
| The Leading Man (Wide) | Northern Arts Entertainment | $5,000 | |
| Love and Death on Long Island (Wide) | Lionsgate | $2,542,264 | |
| Men with Guns (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $742,032 | |
| Twilight (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $15,055,091 | |
| U.S. Marshals (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $57,833,603 | |
| Midaq Alley (Limited) | Northern Arts Entertainment | ||
| Notes from Underground (Limited) | Northern Arts Entertainment | $5,000 | |
| Everest (IMAX) | MacGillivray Freeman Films | $87,178,599 | |
| March 11 | Funny Games (Limited) | Attitude Films | |
| March 13 | Chairman of the Board (Wide) | Trimark | $306,715 |
| The Man in the Iron Mask (Wide) | MGM | $56,968,169 | |
| March 20 | Fireworks (Wide) | $401,540 | |
| Madadayo (Wide) | WinStar Cinema | $48,856 | |
| Mr. Nice Guy (Wide) | New Line | $12,716,953 | |
| Niagara, Niagara (Wide) | Live Entertainment | $168,462 | |
| On Guard (Wide) | Empire Pictures | $96,750 | |
| Primary Colors (Wide) | Universal | $39,017,984 | |
| A Rat's Tale (Wide) | Legacy Releasing | $33,768 | |
| Wide Awake (Wide) | Miramax | $305,704 | |
| Wild Things (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $29,795,299 | |
| March 25 | A Price Above Rubies (Wide) | Miramax | $1,118,808 |
| March 26 | Who the Hell is Juliette? (Limited) | Kino International | $25,646 |
| March 27 | Couloirs du temps: Les visiteurs 2, Les (Wide) | $146,072 | |
| Grease (Wide, re-release) | Paramount Pictures | $188,620,000 | |
| Character (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $713,413 | |
| Meet the Deedles (Wide) | Walt Disney | $4,356,126 | |
| The Newton Boys (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $10,341,093 | |
| No Looking Back (Wide) | Gramercy | $143,273 | |
| Ride (Wide) | Miramax | $5,485,295 | |
| The Proposition (Limited) | Polygram | $1,622,381 | |
| April 1998 | |||
| April 3 | Artemisia (Wide) | Miramax | $377,512 |
| Barney's Great Adventure (Wide) | Polygram | $11,156,471 | |
| The Butcher Boy (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $1,822,193 | |
| Heaven's Burning (Wide) | $5,000 | ||
| Lost In Space (Wide) | New Line | $69,117,629 | |
| Mercury Rising (Wide) | Universal | $32,983,332 | |
| The Spanish Prisoner (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $10,162,034 | |
| Warners 75th (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $498,426 | |
| April 8 | The Players Club (Wide) | New Line | $23,047,939 |
| April 10 | 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $308,082 |
| The Big One (Wide) | Miramax | $720,074 | |
| City of Angels (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $78,750,909 | |
| I Think I Do (Wide) | Strand Releasing | $278,332 | |
| The Last of the High Kings (Wide) | Miramax | $2,647 | |
| My Giant (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $7,985,929 | |
| The Odd Couple II (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $18,912,328 | |
| Species 2 (Wide) | MGM | $19,217,565 | |
| April 15 | 24 7: Twenty Four Seven (Wide) | October Films | $72,544 |
| April 17 | Chinese Box (Wide) | Trimark | $2,265,328 |
| Homegrown (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $215,553 | |
| Major League: Back to the Minors (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $3,551,208 | |
| Nightwatch (Wide) | Miramax | $1,278,516 | |
| The Object of my Affection (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $29,145,924 | |
| Paulie (Wide) | Dreamworks SKG | $27,084,499 | |
| Sour Grapes (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $219,932 | |
| Suicide Kings (Wide) | Artisan | $1,692,872 | |
| Wild Man Blues (Wide) | New Line | $483,917 | |
| April 22 | Deja Vu (Wide) | Rainbow Releasing | $821,997 |
| April 24 | The Big Hit (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $27,066,941 |
| In God's Hands (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $1,431,239 | |
| Music From Another Room (Wide) | Orion Pictures | $5,000 | |
| Sliding Doors (Wide) | Miramax | $11,911,200 | |
| Tarzan and the Lost City (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $2,147,114 | |
| The Truce (Wide) | Miramax | $71,448 | |
| Two Girls and a Guy (Wide) | Fox Searchlight | $2,057,193 | |
| May 1998 | |||
| May 1 | A Friend of Deceased (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $157,437 |
| Black Dog (Wide) | Universal | $12,857,351 | |
| Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $574,838 | |
| Go Now! (Wide) | Gramercy | $3,657 | |
| He Got Game (Wide) | Walt Disney | $21,567,853 | |
| Les Miserables (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $13,887,945 | |
| Shooting Fish (Wide) | Fox Searchlight | $302,204 | |
| Still Breathing (Wide) | October Films | $212,267 | |
| Wilde (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $2,157,701 | |
| May 4 | Bugs Bunny Film Fest (Wide) | $352,397 | |
| May 8 | Deep Impact (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $140,464,664 |
| The Kingdom, Part II (Wide) | October Films | $8,294 | |
| Louisa May Alcott's Little Men (Wide) | Legacy Releasing | $4,092 | |
| Shopping for Fangs (Wide) | Margin Films | $2,194 | |
| Woo (Wide) | New Line | $8,064,972 | |
| Africa's Elephant Kingdom (IMAX) | Discovery/IMAX | $13,485,455 | |
| May 15 | Bulworth (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $26,528,684 |
| The Climb (Wide) | $78,677 | ||
| Clockwatchers (Wide) | Artistic License | $537,948 | |
| The Horse Whisperer (Wide) | Walt Disney | $75,383,563 | |
| Lawn Dogs (Wide) | Strand Releasing | $106,292 | |
| Plump Fiction (Wide) | Legacy Releasing | $37,260 | |
| Quest for Camelot (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $22,772,500 | |
| Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (Limited) | Northern Arts Entertainment | $19,265 | |
| May 19 | Godzilla (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $136,314,294 |
| May 22 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Wide) | Universal | $10,680,275 |
| The Opposite of Sex (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $6,367,164 | |
| May 27 | I Got the Hook-Up! (Wide) | Miramax | $10,317,779 |
| May 29 | Almost Heroes (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $6,175,688 |
| Hope Floats (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $60,110,313 | |
| Insomnia (Wide) | First Run Features | $221,173 | |
| The Last Days of Disco (Wide) | Gramercy | $3,024,198 | |
| Little Boy Blue (Wide) | Castle Hill Productions | $3,526 | |
| Day at the Beach (Limited) | Arrow Releasing | $9,980 | |
| Yellow (Limited) | Phaedra Cinema | $19,716 | |
| June 1998 | |||
| June 5 | Beyond Silence (Wide) | Miramax | $171,334 |
| Mr. Jealousy (Wide) | Lionsgate | $287,752 | |
| A Perfect Murder (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $67,658,331 | |
| The Truman Show (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $125,618,201 | |
| Charlie Hoboken (Limited) | Northern Arts Entertainment | ||
| June 12 | Can't Hardly Wait (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $25,358,996 |
| Cousin Bette (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $1,161,063 | |
| Dirty Work (Wide) | MGM | $10,020,081 | |
| High Art (Wide) | October Films | $1,835,565 | |
| The Land Girls (Wide) | Gramercy | $146,083 | |
| When I Close My Eyes (Wide) | Fine Line | ||
| Passion in the Desert (Wide) | Fine Line | $181,083 | |
| Six Days, Seven Nights (Wide) | Walt Disney | $74,339,294 | |
| June 19 | Dream for an Insomniac (Wide) | Avalanche Releasing | $5,000 |
| Hav Plenty (Wide) | Miramax | $2,301,777 | |
| Henry Fool (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $1,334,786 | |
| Mulan (Wide) | Walt Disney | $120,620,254 | |
| The X Files: Fight the Future (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $83,898,313 | |
| June 20 | Ambushed (Wide) | $5,000 | |
| June 24 | I Went Down (Wide) | Artisan | $405,297 |
| June 26 | Buffalo '66 (Wide) | Lionsgate | $2,380,606 |
| Doctor Dolittle (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $144,156,605 | |
| Out of Sight (Wide) | Universal | $37,562,568 | |
| Picnic at Hanging Rock (Wide) | Atlantic | $118,374 | |
| Smoke Signals (Wide) | Miramax | $6,719,300 | |
| Gone with the Wind (Limited, re-release) | MGM | $198,680,470 | |
| June TBD | Talk to Me (Limited) | Northern Arts Entertainment | |
| July 1998 | |||
| July 1 | Armageddon (Wide) | Walt Disney | $201,578,182 |
| Nights of Cabiria (Wide) | Rialto Pictures | $773,193 | |
| July 3 | The Beyond (Limited, re-release) | $126,387 | |
| Mark Twain's America 3D (IMAX) | Sony Pictures Classics | $2,992,106 | |
| July 10 | Hands on a Hardbody (Wide) | Legacy Releasing | $909,650 |
| Lethal Weapon 4 (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $130,444,603 | |
| Madeline (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $29,858,048 | |
| Pi (Wide) | Live Entertainment | $3,221,152 | |
| Small Soldiers (Wide) | Dreamworks SKG | $55,143,823 | |
| Whatever (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $229,750 | |
| July 15 | There's Something About Mary (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $176,484,651 |
| July 16 | Mysteries of Egypt (IMAX) | Sony Pictures | $40,593,286 |
| July 17 | The Mask of Zorro (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $93,828,745 |
| Polish Wedding (Wide) | Fox Searchlight | $608,296 | |
| The Thief (Wide) | Stratosphere Entertainment | $1,126,115 | |
| Under Heaven (Limited) | |||
| July 22 | Lolita (Wide) | MGM | $1,147,784 |
| The Saltmen of Tibet (Wide) | Zeitgeist | $146,437 | |
| July 24 | Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (Wide) | Trimark | $2,020,700 |
| Disturbing Behavior (Wide) | MGM | $17,507,368 | |
| East Palace West Palace (Wide) | Strand Releasing | $46,470 | |
| Jane Austen's Mafia (Wide) | Walt Disney | $19,843,795 | |
| Saving Private Ryan (Wide) | Dreamworks SKG | $216,335,085 | |
| Western (Wide) | New Yorker | $200,840 | |
| July 29 | The Negotiator (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $44,705,766 |
| The Parent Trap (Wide) | Walt Disney | $66,308,518 | |
| July 31 | BASEketball (Wide) | Universal | $7,042,541 |
| Ever After: A Cinderella Story (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $65,705,772 | |
| Full Tilt Boogie (Wide) | Miramax | ||
| Governess (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $3,794,031 | |
| Killer Condom (Wide) | |||
| Seventh Heaven (Wide) | Zeitgeist | $45 | |
| August 1998 | |||
| August 5 | Halloween: H2O (Wide) | Miramax | $55,041,738 |
| August 7 | First Love, Last Rites (Wide) | Strand Releasing | $10,876 |
| Gadjo Dilo (Wide) | Lionsgate | $673,153 | |
| Safe Men (Wide) | October Films | $21,210 | |
| Snake Eyes (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $55,591,409 | |
| Unmade Beds (Wide) | New Yorker | $75,752 | |
| August 14 | Air Bud: Golden Receiver (Wide) | Miramax | $10,093,523 |
| The Avengers (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $23,385,416 | |
| Chambermaid on the Titanic (Wide) | MGM | $244,465 | |
| How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $37,672,944 | |
| Regeneration (Wide) | Alliance Atlantis | $19,273 | |
| Return to Paradise (Wide) | Universal | $8,352,677 | |
| Slums of Beverly Hills (Wide) | Fox Searchlight | $5,502,773 | |
| August 19 | Your Friends and Neighbors (Wide) | Gramercy | $4,714,658 |
| August 21 | Blade (Wide) | New Line | $70,141,876 |
| Dance With Me (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $15,923,354 | |
| Dead Man on Campus (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $15,064,948 | |
| The Eel (Wide) | New Yorker | $418,192 | |
| Next Stop Wonderland (Wide) | Miramax | $3,395,581 | |
| Strike (Wide) | Miramax | $968,506 | |
| Wrongfully Accused (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $9,642,860 | |
| August 28 | 54 (Wide) | Miramax | $16,757,163 |
| I Married a Strange Person (Wide) | Lionsgate | $203,134 | |
| Like It Is (Wide) | First Run Features | $94,943 | |
| A Merry War (Wide) | First Look | $373,830 | |
| See the Sea (Wide) | Zeitgeist | $49,983 | |
| Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $12,506,676 | |
| September 1998 | |||
| September 3 | The Jew in the Lotus (Wide) | ||
| September 4 | Firelight (Wide) | Walt Disney | $784,419 |
| Knock Off (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $10,319,915 | |
| Modulations (Wide) | Strand Releasing | $138,425 | |
| Phoenix (Wide) | Trimark | $5,000 | |
| September 11 | Chicago Cab (Wide) | Castle Hill Productions | $5,000 |
| Digging to China (Wide) | Legacy Releasing | $33,000 | |
| Let's Talk About Sex (Wide) | Fine Line | $373,615 | |
| Out of the Past (Wide) | $8,688 | ||
| Rounders (Wide) | Miramax | $22,921,898 | |
| Simon Birch (Wide) | Walt Disney | $18,253,415 | |
| Without Limits (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $780,326 | |
| The Cube (Limited) | $489,220 | ||
| September 16 | Permanent Midnight (Wide) | Artisan | $1,171,001 |
| September 18 | One True Thing (Wide) | Universal | $23,337,196 |
| Rush Hour (Wide) | New Line | $141,186,864 | |
| Six-String Samurai (Wide) | Palm Pictures | $134,624 | |
| A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (Wide) | October Films | $1,775,523 | |
| Somewhere in the City (Wide) | Artistic License | $7,016 | |
| September 23 | Shadrach (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $20,167 |
| September 25 | The Brandon Teena Story (Wide) | Zeitgeist | $43,506 |
| Clay Pigeons (Wide) | Gramercy | $1,793,359 | |
| The Last Big Thing (Wide) | Stratosphere Entertainment | $22,434 | |
| Monument Ave. (Wide) | Lionsgate | $332,388 | |
| Pecker (Wide) | Fine Line | $2,281,761 | |
| Ronin (Wide) | MGM | $41,610,884 | |
| Urban Legend (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $38,116,707 | |
| September TBD | Naked Acts (Limited) | $27,385 | |
| October 1998 | |||
| October 2 | Antz (Wide) | Dreamworks SKG | $90,757,863 |
| Dear Jesse (Wide) | Cowboy Pictures | $15,631 | |
| Hit Me (Wide) | Castle Hill Productions | $12,491 | |
| The Imposters (Wide) | Fox Searchlight | $2,197,921 | |
| A Night at the Roxbury (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $30,331,165 | |
| The Separation (Wide) | Phaedra Cinema | $62,626 | |
| Strangeland (Wide) | Artisan | $631,221 | |
| What Dreams May Come (Wide) | Polygram | $55,485,043 | |
| The Bicycle Thief (Limited, re-release) | $361,712 | ||
| October 7 | Love is the Devil (Wide) | Strand Releasing | $343,023 |
| October 9 | C't'a ton tour Laura Cadieux (Wide) | Alliance Atlantis | $1,045,907 |
| The Celebration (Wide) | October Films | $1,647,780 | |
| Holy Man (Wide) | Walt Disney | $12,069,719 | |
| The Inheritors (Wide) | Stratosphere Entertainment | $196,452 | |
| The Mighty (Wide) | Miramax | $2,652,246 | |
| One Tough Cop (Wide) | Stratosphere Entertainment | $1,313,607 | |
| Slam (Wide) | Trimark | $1,009,819 | |
| October 16 | The Alarmist (Wide) | Lionsgate | $55,986 |
| All the Rage (Wide) | $198,553 | ||
| Beloved (Wide) | Walt Disney | $22,852,487 | |
| Bride of Chucky (Wide) | Universal | $32,404,188 | |
| Happiness (Wide) | Good Machine Releasing | $2,746,453 | |
| Practical Magic (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $46,850,558 | |
| Reach the Rock (Wide) | Gramercy | $4,960 | |
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Wide) | $113,484 | ||
| Razor Blade Smile (Limited) | |||
| Some Nudity Required (Limited) | Seventh Art Releasing | $5,853 | |
| October 21 | Freeriders (Wide) | Warren Miller Entertainment | $2,750,064 |
| October 23 | Apt Pupil (Wide) | Sony/TriStar | $8,863,193 |
| The Cruise (Wide) | Artisan | $255,764 | |
| Les Boys II (Wide) | Lionsgate | $5,974,732 | |
| Life Is Beautiful (Wide) | Miramax | $57,598,247 | |
| Orgazmo (Wide) | October Films | $582,024 | |
| Pleasantville (Wide) | New Line | $40,584,421 | |
| Soldier (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $14,623,082 | |
| Last Night (Limited) | Lionsgate | $288,530 | |
| T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (IMAX) | IMAX Films | $53,743,249 | |
| October 30 | American History X (Wide) | New Line | $6,719,864 |
| Living Out Loud (Wide) | New Line | $12,905,901 | |
| Summer of the Monkeys (Wide) | $22,500 | ||
| Talk of Angels (Wide) | Miramax | $15,546 | |
| Vampires (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $20,268,825 | |
| November 1998 | |||
| November 4 | Belly (Wide) | Artisan | $9,639,390 |
| November 6 | Elizabeth (Wide) | Gramercy | $30,082,699 |
| Gods and Monsters (Wide) | Lionsgate | $6,451,628 | |
| The Siege (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $40,934,175 | |
| Velvet Goldmine (Wide) | Miramax | $1,053,788 | |
| The Waterboy (Wide) | Walt Disney | $161,491,646 | |
| The Big Chill (Limited, re-release) | Sony Pictures | $56,077,501 | |
| November 13 | Dancing at Lughnasa (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $2,361,632 |
| Hard Core Logo (Wide) | Miramax | $17,012 | |
| I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $40,020,622 | |
| I'll Be Home For Christmas (Wide) | Walt Disney | $12,214,338 | |
| Meet Joe Black (Wide) | Universal | $44,650,003 | |
| River Red (Wide) | Castle Hill Productions | $2,197 | |
| Ten Benny (Wide) | Artistic License | $9,003 | |
| Thursday (Wide) | Legacy Releasing | $1,971 | |
| Welcome to Woop-Woop (Wide) | Goldwyn Entertainment | $35,471 | |
| November 20 | Celebrity (Wide) | Miramax | $5,078,660 |
| Central Station (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $5,969,553 | |
| Enemy of the State (Wide) | Walt Disney | $111,549,836 | |
| The Rugrats Movie (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $100,494,685 | |
| Savior (Wide) | Lionsgate | $12,903 | |
| Storefront Hitchcock (Wide) | MGM | $3,073 | |
| Sue (Wide) | Castle Hill Productions | $113,775 | |
| Waking Ned Devine (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $24,793,251 | |
| Taxi (Limited) | |||
| A Bug’s Life (Exclusive) | Walt Disney | $162,798,565 | |
| November 24 | Cracking Up (Wide) | ||
| November 25 | Babe: Pig in the City (Wide) | Universal | $18,319,860 |
| Home Fries (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $10,513,979 | |
| Jerry Springer: Ringmaster (Wide) | Artisan | $9,257,103 | |
| The Mirror (Wide) | $69,225 | ||
| Steam: The Turkish Bath (Wide) | Strand Releasing | $655,078 | |
| Very Bad Things (Wide) | Polygram | $9,949,470 | |
| Vietnam Long Time Coming (Wide) | $951 | ||
| The Last Emperor (Limited, re-release) | Artisan | $43,984,987 | |
| The Nutcracker (IMAX) | IMAX Films | $1,009,291 | |
| November 27 | A Bug’s Life (Expands Wide) | Walt Disney | $162,798,565 |
| December 1998 | |||
| December 4 | Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance (Wide) | Artistic License | $719 |
| Hi-Life (Wide) | Lionsgate | $7,957 | |
| Little Voice (Wide) | Miramax | $4,595,000 | |
| Psycho (Wide) | Universal | $21,541,218 | |
| Shattered Image (Wide) | Lionsgate | $102,523 | |
| Vig (Wide) | $5,000 | ||
| December 11 | Didn't Do It For Love (Wide) | First Run Features | $10,525 |
| Jack Frost (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $34,645,374 | |
| The Ogre (Wide) | Kino International | $49,166 | |
| Red Meat (Wide) | |||
| Shakespeare in Love (Wide) | Miramax | $100,317,794 | |
| A Simple Plan (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $16,316,273 | |
| Star Trek: Insurrection (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $70,187,658 | |
| Rushmore (Limited) | Walt Disney | $17,105,219 | |
| December 18 | The Emperor's Shadow (Wide) | $71,906 | |
| The General (Wide) | Sony Pictures Classics | $1,256,461 | |
| Outside Ozona (Wide) | Sony Pictures | $7,394 | |
| The Prince of Egypt (Wide) | Dreamworks SKG | $101,413,188 | |
| You’ve Got Mail (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $115,821,495 | |
| December 23 | The Day of the Beast (Wide) | Trimark | $15,324 |
| The Thin Red Line (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $36,400,491 | |
| The Theory of Flight (Limited) | Fine Line | $71,999 | |
| December 25 | A Civil Action (Wide) | Walt Disney | $56,709,981 |
| The Faculty (Wide) | Miramax | $40,283,321 | |
| Mighty Joe Young (Wide) | Walt Disney | $50,632,037 | |
| Patch Adams (Wide) | Universal | $135,014,968 | |
| Stepmom (Wide) | Sony/TriStar | $91,137,662 | |
| Down in the Delta (Limited) | Miramax | $5,672,903 | |
| Hurlyburly (Limited) | Fine Line | $1,798,862 | |
| December 28 | This is the Sea (Wide) | $5,000 | |
| December 30 | Hilary and Jackie (Wide) | October Films | $4,874,838 |
| Affliction (Limited) | Lionsgate | $6,330,054 | |
| Another Day in Paradise (Limited) | Trimark | $1,036,818 | |
| The Hi-Lo Country (Limited) | Gramercy | $166,082 | |
| Playing by Heart (Limited) | Miramax | $3,956,212 | |